By: Dylan Thomas Roberto Fonseca Luis Marcos Oscar Orellana Miguel Villegas Denzel Carranza

“Do Not Gentle into that Good Night “ is a poem that is written in a Villanelle form (a French verse form, Strictly calculate to appear simple and spontaneous; five tercets and a final quatrain, rhyming aba aba aba aba aba aba lines 1,6,12,18 and 3,9,15 are refrain). Villanelles have nineteen lines divided into five three-line stanzas and a sixth stanza with four lines. In English, villanelles tend to be written in the common metrical pattern called iambic pentameter, which means ten syllables per line, with every other syllable stressed, starting with the second syllable. So the lines will sound like this: da-DUM da- DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM. For example, the second line of this poem is, more or less The meaning behind the poem was for Dylan father who was in a state of coma to not let himself be taken by death easily. Giving him examples of how different kind of men fight death. Dylan Thomas likes to fool around with his syntax and extend his metaphors, but the villanelle form creates constant repetition of his message and helps us follow along, he repeats it no fewer than four times.

The rhyme scheme is ABA ABA ABA ABA ABA ABAA, so there are only two rhymes that end all the lines. In addition, the first line and third line, the refrains, are repeated four times each – the first line appears at the end of stanzas 2 and 4 and as the second to last line in stanza 6. The poem's third line appears again at the end of stanzas 3, 5, and 6. So if we call the first line A and the third line A', and any line that rhymes with them a, then the rhyme scheme is: AbA' abA abA' abA abA' abAA'.

The Speaker Introduces a unknown character that is told to not "go gentle into that good night.“ The writer plays with the meaning of the word night but at the end of line 3 it is clear how he uses the word night as a meaning of death. The span of one day could represent a man's lifetime, which makes the sunset his approaching demise. The words "That good night“ are change at the end of line 2 by "close of day,“ and at the end of line 3 to "the dying of the light." Each ending with the rhyming of the words night,day,and light also each repeating the euphemism of death The writer tells the reader that old men shouldn’t die peacefully but should "burn and rave," struggling with a fiery intensity. The word "rave" in line 2 connects with the repeated "rage" at the beginning of line 3, uniting anger, power, madness, and frustration in a whirlwind of emotion.

The metaphor of night as death continues here, with death figured as the "dark." The speaker admits that sensible, smart people realize death traveling into "the dark" is inevitable and appropriate. After all, we're all going to die, and it's a totally natural process. But even clever people don’t simply accept death as shown in line 4 In line 5 the speakers tell us why they don’t simply accept death saying "their words had forked no lightning“ meaning that even though the "wise men" have put everything they can into their words, those words weren't attractive enough to make the lightning split. The bright electric of the lightning bolt adds a new meaning to the light/dark and day/night metaphors, saying that living life is more like getting zapped by an electric shock than like feeling the gentle radiation of the sun.

The basic subject in this sentence is, "Good men" (line 7), and the verb, "Rage" (line9). In the speaker's opinion, true goodness consists of fighting the inevitability of death with all your might: "Good men Rage, rage against the dying of the light." Thomas adds a image of the ocean waves saying how the waves look bright as they travel through the sea. How they could have seen more brightly in the green bay The bay is "green" because the sea is really brimming with life – plants, and seaweed. The speakers makes the reader image how the wave is alive in the water but as it comes to the shore it fades away dying. Thomas describes the good men's potential future actions but since they die there won’t be anymore things they could have done as "frail deeds.“ tells how age affects their actions or themselves.

The speaker describes another kind of men who don't allow themselves to fade quietly away into death, "Wild men" (line 10). In line 11 describes the wild men as those who imagine capturing the world around them and celebrate their doing. "who caught and sang the sun in flight“. Only to discover that the world they have in their hands is quickly fading away. “And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,” Thomas also uses the words sun to represent the beauty of life and flight to show the lifespan of the life suggesting how life happens in a blink on and eye meaning that one moment you could be celebrating life during your celebration you find your self seeing the sunset of your life.

The speaker describes the way that "Grave men“ fight their impending death. Grave in this line could mean both serious men or those who are dying These serious dying men even if they are week and loosing there life they sight can use there last moments of life to rage against death So, even though their eyes are going blind, these men can see, metaphorically speaking, with an overwhelming certainty or "blinding sight," that they still have a lot over the way they die, even if not the timing. Instead of being snuffed like candles, they can "blaze like meteors" (line 14). They're planning to go out with a bang.

In The last line the speakers to addressing his father that is in the verge of death. The speaker deceives this as “sad heights” The speaker begs his father to cry passionately, which will be both a blessing and a curse. After all, the father's death is heartbreaking. But if he battles against the odds, it might also be heroic. The speaker finish the poem whit the two lines that are repeated through the poem. Telling his father to no let himself be tacked by death so easily but to cry, curse, and to rage about death in every step of the way.

The tone of this poem is defiant and persuasive since trough the poem he tries to persuasive his father not to give in to death trough the poem and defiant since he doesn’t accept his father letting death take him away with out him doing nothing The persuasive part of the poem is show through the whole with the words “Do Not Gentle into that Good Night “. The defiant part of the poem is show on how different type of men rage against the “dying of the light”.

Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales, in An undistinguished student, he left school at 16, becoming a journalist for a short time. Although many of his works appeared in print while he was still a teenager, it was the publication of "Light breaks where no sun shines", in 1934, that caught the attention of the literary world. While living in London, Thomas met Caitlin McNamara, whom he married in Their relationship was defined by alcoholism and was mutually destructive. In the early part of his marriage, Thomas and his family lived hand-to-mouth, settling in the Welsh fishing village of Laugharne. Thomas' last collection Collected Poems, 1934–1952, published when he was 38, won the Foyle poetry prize. Reviewing the volume, critic Philip Toynbee declared that "Thomas is the greatest living poet in the English language". One of Thomas' last poems, "Do not go gentle into that good night", was a villanelle to his father, who died from pneumonia just before Christmas In the first few months of 1953 his sister died from liver cancer, one of his patrons took an overdose of sleeping pills, three friends died at an early age and Caitlin had another abortion. Thomas was admitted to the emergency ward at St Vincent's Hospital at 1:58 am. He was comatose, and his medical notes state that the "impression upon admission was acute alcoholic encephalopathy damage to the brain by alcohol, The pneumonia worsened and Thomas died, whilst in coma, at noon on 9 November.

1. What does each stanza talk about? 2. What is the poetic form of this poem? 3. In “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” all the following metaphors are used for death Except A)Line 1-”That good Night” B)Line 2- “Close of Day”C)Line 4 “dark is right D)Line 17 “that sad height” 4. When the poet repeats the words “Rage, Rage” what is he telling his father? 5. What does the poet mean by “ Do not go gentle into the good night”? 6. ”Because their words had forked no lighting” means 7. What is this poems Tone? 8. When was the poet born and when did he die? 9. Name a euphemism of death for this poem that is not in question 3? 10. Why should “old age... Burn and rave at close of day”?